Commodore Hotel - Modern 3 Star hotel at Cwmbran, Gwent. Has function and conference rooms, restaurant and bars.
"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Travel and Tourism Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism
We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
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-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
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-- Douglas Adams Travel and Tourism I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
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"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Travel and Tourism "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Travel and Tourism How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Travel and Tourism
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Travel and Tourism "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Travel and Tourism Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Travel and Tourism
For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Travel and Tourism In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Travel and Tourism "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Travel and Tourism
English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism
I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Travel and Tourism What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Travel and Tourism